Sant'Angelo had its first approaching to mass tourism after the rediscovering of the thermal baths of Cava Scura, belonging to the Roman Age and then abandoned: they consisted of a series of grottos excavated in the tufa with rudimental basins made out from the walls to collect the thermal water and mud baths.

Togheter with the sand baths in the Fumarole on Maronti Beach (where it is possible to cook an egg only putting it into the sand) this thermal centre exerted a wide attraction, stimulating the growth of tourist offer and the transformation of the old fishing village into a sea resort.

Nowadays all hotels have their own internal structure for thermal baths and mud, so the thermal grottos of Cava Scura are not frequented anymore, but they remain as testimonies of local history.

Sant'Angelo has become an exclusive tourist resort with luxury hotels, bar and restaurants at open-air which give a strong and lasting sensation of relax and peacefulness.

In fact into the village and to the beach you cannot arrive by car, because the road passes upside the village, without touching the characteristic set of streets and starways paved with stones and winding through houses in such an irregular way.

Sant'Angelo is a hamlet of the Municipality of Serrara Fontana, while the adjacent Maronti Beach is part of the territory of Barano, but it is only a mere administrative division, becouse they constitute an indissoluble natural and historical unit.